Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-26 Thread Dave Witbrodt
On 07/26/2010 11:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: There's another advice I need to give: while dpkg-dev will automatically use fakeroot when necessary, make-kpkg currently does not unless you set ROOT_CMD=fakeroot in the environment. You can put this setting into ~/.kernel-pkg.conf (I have it there fo

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-26 14:00 +0200, Curt Howland wrote: > On Monday 26 July 2010, Sven Joachim was heard to > say: >> You need to install the fakeroot package to build Debian packages >> as an ordinary user.  In Squeeze, dpkg-dev recommends fakeroot for >> that reason. > > Well, that solves that question

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-26 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 July 2010, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > You need to install the fakeroot package to build Debian packages > as an ordinary user.  In Squeeze, dpkg-dev recommends fakeroot for > that reason. Well, that solves that question. I thought

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-26 03:32 +0200, Curt Howland wrote: > Well, I've run into another problem with the compile that folks might > find interesting. > > All while running as the only user account on this machine (other than > root), I ran into a very interesting permissions error at the end of > the "make-k

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Curt Howland wrote: > Well, I've run into another problem with the compile that folks might > find interesting. > > All while running as the only user account on this machine (other than > root), I ran into a very interesting permissions error at the end of > the "

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Curt Howland
Well, I've run into another problem with the compile that folks might find interesting. All while running as the only user account on this machine (other than root), I ran into a very interesting permissions error at the end of the "make-kpkg kernel_image" process. I did the compile as root succes

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 July 2010, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > Not really.  The libc6-dev package is too old, lacking sys/eventfd. Got it. I will give up with this machine. I don't want to upgrade to Squeeze due to preferring KDE3. Curt- - -- Those wh

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 July 2010, Rares Aioanei was heard to say: > If you are certain that the kernel tree isn't missing some files, > then this is a situation for bugzilla.kernel.org . :) Well, no, it must be just me. I pulled down and tried the 2.6.34.1 mai

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 July 2010, Rares Aioanei was heard to say: > If you are certain that the kernel tree isn't missing some files, > then this is a situation for bugzilla.kernel.org . :) As certain as I can be, having been careful not to delete anything. Ju

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-25 18:25 +0200, Curt Howland wrote: > Now on to something new: Build failure! Who'd'a thought? I changed > back to single-concurrency just to make sure that it wasn't > related, "make clean", then tried again with the same result. > > Any suggestions? > > == > $ make-kpkg --re

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-25 18:54 +0200, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On 07/25/2010 07:25 PM, Curt Howland wrote: >> >> == >> $ make-kpkg --revision=curt0.1 kernel_image >> {scrolled so many as I'm sure you know... Then,} >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6' >> /usr/bin/make -j1 ARCH=i

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 07/25/2010 07:25 PM, Curt Howland wrote: == $ make-kpkg --revision=curt0.1 kernel_image {scrolled so many as I'm sure you know... Then,} make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6' /usr/bin/make -j1 ARCH=i386 \ -C Documentation/lguest make[1

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 July 2010, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > > Setting CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 in your user environment should fix > > this, at least, it used to. > > This only works if you use kernel-package to build the kernel.  The > generic way is to use

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-25 03:49 +0200, Curt Howland wrote: > Not compiling often (as you can tell), I note that the compile is > using only one cpu of 4 at a time. I'm sure there is a parallel > compilation tweak somewhere. Yes, the "-j" switch for make. If you want to build a Debian package that you can

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-25 05:22 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Curt Howland put forth on 7/24/2010 8:49 PM: > >> Not compiling often (as you can tell), I note that the compile is >> using only one cpu of 4 at a time. I'm sure there is a parallel >> compilation tweak somewhere. > > Setting CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-24 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:22:29 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Curt Howland put forth on 7/24/2010 8:49 PM: > > > Not compiling often (as you can tell), I note that the compile is > > using only one cpu of 4 at a time. I'm sure there is a parallel > > compilation tweak somewhere. > > Setting CONCU

RE: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Viau
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:22:29 -0500 wrote: > > Setting CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 in your user environment should fix this, at > least, it used to. From the bash command line, for the current session only: > > export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 > > To make it permanent you need to edit /home/[user]/.bash_p

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Curt Howland put forth on 7/24/2010 8:49 PM: > Not compiling often (as you can tell), I note that the compile is > using only one cpu of 4 at a time. I'm sure there is a parallel > compilation tweak somewhere. Setting CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 in your user environment should fix this, at least, it us

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 July 2010, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > > Suggestions? > > Install libncurses5-dev and use "make menuconfig" or "make nconfig" > (the latter is new in 2.6.35). Got it, and it works fine. Thank you. Not compiling often (as you can

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-24 Thread John Hasler
Curt writes: > I was surprised with the failure of menuconfig, since I have all of > ncurses installed and the "ncurses-devel" suggestion isn't a Debian > package name anyway. > Suggestions? libncurses5-dev -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-24 22:26 +0200, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. Lenny, up to date with security and backports. > > I pulled down 2.6.35-rc6.tar.bz2 from kernel.org, and would like to > try compiling it to see what's Coming Soon To A Disto Near Me. > > Its been about 9 years since the last time I compiled a